Some small businesses, primarily restaurants, including fast food chains, still complain that they cannot find workers because of...

As the nation begins to emerge from the pandemic and the economy improves, it might behoove us to reflect on the so-called “natural”...

The latest jobs report is weak noting that there are labor shortages, and that employers are having a hard time filling jobs. Of course...

We hear a lot about globalization and the toll it has taken on workers’ earnings, their jobs, and overall inequality over the last few...

The elites that claim the filibuster in the Senate violates the principles of democracy now seek to end it, not because they really want...

The Meltzer-Roth model of the median voter theorem has long held that the median voter effectively chooses the size of the government....

State officials have been hiding behind a fiction that businesses are shuttered and people are out of work because of a pandemic. This is...

As part of the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, the minimum wage is expected to be raised to $15.00 an hour. Whether this should be part...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A new administration has taken power, and it appears to be the usual politics of...

One version of the median voter theorem holds that the greater the distance between the median voter’s income and the average income of...

There are a couple of models of representation. The first model is where the elected representative, say a member of Congress, serves as...

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, there is a question that looms large. Was the 2016 election an aberration? Or did it...

I have written in this space in the past about how polarization in America is really about a tale of two economies and their respective...

We have heard a lot in recent years about voter suppression. Voter ID laws, for example, are an effort to suppress the vote. Because poor...

It is the eve of the 2020 election and still no agreement has been reached on a second coronavirus relief bill. The Democrats still hold...

As we move into the two final weeks of the 2020 election, we are once again hearing about taxes. The Trump people claim that Biden will...

In his new book, The New Class War, Michael Lind suggests that American society could best be divided into the managerial elites who are...

In the wake of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the selection of the next Supreme Court justice has enormous implications....

In the current campaign for the presidency, we hear quite often that the choice before us is between capitalism and socialism. Or worse,...

A couple of weeks ago in this space I talked about the roots of polarization lying in the economy. It is almost as though we have two...